FOIA
POSITION OF CHURCH IN THE CARPATHO-UKRAINE
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP82-00457R000100860003-7
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RIPPUB
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S
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 18, 1999
Sequence Number:
3
Case Number:
Publication Date:
December 6, 1946
Content Type:
IR
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Approved For Release 1999
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
!NTELUGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY U.S.S.R.
SUt9i T Position of Church in the Carpatho-Ukraine
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10 December 1946
SUPPLEMENT
. gr. Gennaio Verolini, fermar assistant to Msgr. Rottap Papa., Nuncio
in Hungary, who was sent as an observer to Prague returned to Roe and
disclosed that the position of the Rowan Catholic and Eastern Churches
is strong in the Carpatho-Ukraine despite strong pressure from the
Soviets.
Msgr. Romza was appointed administrator of the Carpatho-Ukraine by the
Pope shortly before the Russian occupation. He succeeded in resisting
the conversion of Catholics to Orthodoxy which the Russians attempted to
force, The Orthodox priests under oviet influ once forced the illiter-
ates to sign statements of adherence to the Moscow i hurch. The Catholic
clergy vi.thout exception reined faithful to Rome.
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